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• Mother, 3 Daughters Raped At Gun point In Delta State

  
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  A gang of suspected rapists at the weekend raped 3 daughters and their mother in Illah town, Oshimili North local government area of Delta State at gun point. Spokesman of the state police command, ASP Lucky Uyabeme, said the victims were ambushed on their way to the farm, adding that one of the suspects, identified ...
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• LE SECRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRAL NOMME MME AÏCHATOU MINDAOUDOU SOULEYMANE, DU NIGER, REPRÉSENTANTE SPÉCIALE EN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

  
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    LE SECRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRAL NOMME MME AÏCHATOU MINDAOUDOU SOULEYMANE, DU NIGER, REPRÉSENTANTE SPÉCIALE EN CÔTE D’IVOIRE   NEW YORK, 20 mai 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Le Secrétaire général de l’ONU, M. Ban Ki-moon, a annoncé aujourd’hui la nomination de Mme Aïchatou Mindaoudou ...
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• Secret papers ‘show how Shell targeted Nigeria oil protests’

  
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  Documents seen by The IoS support claims energy giant enlisted help of country’s military government By Andy Rowell Sunday 14 June 2009 Serious questions over Shell Oil’s alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Nigeria emerged last night after confidential internal documents and court statements revealed how ...
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• Nigeria military: 17 killed during offensive

  
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  Nigerias military says its offensive against insurgents in the countrys restive northeast has killed at least 14 suspected Islamic extremists and three soldiers. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, said in a statement that one soldier also was missing as "forces have been engaging a large ...
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• Pakistani politician is shot dead

  
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  Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi. More here: Pakistani politician is shot dead
  6 days ago

• Plane Crash Memorialized In The Deep Sahara

  
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  Filed under: History , Photos , Africa , Niger , France , Airlines , Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) Google Earth In a lonely corner the Sahara Desert, Google Earth shows what looks like a tattoo on the sun-parched sands: a dark graphic blot amid the vast remoteness of Nigers Tenere region. The ...
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• The UN Advisory Committee of Administrative and Budgetary Questions asks – Why is The Office of the UN Special Representative to the Sahel located in Rome, with Romano Prodi as its Head, while he was pursuing the Presidency of Italy?

  
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  Matthew Russell Lee reports from the UN that Amid Sahel Standstill, UN Committee Asks Why Prodi Is Based in Rome.   UNITED NATIONS, May 10, 2013 — When Romano Prodi, ostensibly the UN’s envoy on if not in the Sahel, became a candidate for the Italian presidency , the UN of Secretary ...
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• Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger state dissociates self from presidential posters, orders removal

  
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  Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Saturday dissociated himself from posters depicting him to be seeking the PDP presidential ticket for the 2015 election. Mr. Aliyu distanced himself from the posters, in reaction to the news of the seizure of the posters by security agents in Kaduna, at a one-day North Central ...
  2 weeks ago

• Men, Step Up on Family Planning

  
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  A woman holds her baby in a village in southern Niger, where progress in womens access to family planning is being made. Babatunde Osotimehin: Women need to be able to control their own reproductive healthOsotimehin: Women in developing world ... The post Men, Step Up on Family Planning appeared first on ...
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• Africa: Understanding the causes of violent extremism in West Africa

  
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  Photo: Crown Copyright. Insecurity in West Africa. Fostering development can help blunt extremist violence, observers saySource: IRIN DAKAR, 10 May 2013 (IRIN) - Academics and government, military and civil society representatives gathered for a conference in the Senegalese capital this week to assess the interplay ...
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• What Next for Nigeria’s Oil Patch?

  
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  With Mali’s implosion, Islamic extremism in the Sahel, and the “Boko Haram” insurgency in Nigeria’s north drawing international attention, the Niger Delta has dropped off the radar of many West Africa watchers. Yet, only five years ago an insurrection there resulted in a major reduction in Nigeria’s oil ...
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• Finance and Admin Assistant at Management Sciences for Health (MSH) - Taraba, Niger, Akwa Ibom States

  
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  Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health, especially among the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by ...
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• Religious Roots of Boko Haram

  
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  This is a guest post by Jacob Zenn, a research analyst at The Jamestown Foundation, and Atta Barkindo, a Ph.D. candidate, SOAS, University of London . Since launching an insurgency in northern Nigeria in September 2010, Boko Haram leader Abu Shekau and his spokesmen have issued more than thirty statements to the ...
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• Phylogeography of Bantu languages (Currie et al. 2013)

  
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  Proc. R. Soc. B 7 July 2013 vol. 280 no. 1762 20130695 Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa Thomas E. Currie et al. There is disagreement about the routes taken by populations speaking Bantu languages as they expanded to cover much of sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we build ...
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• Heaven on earth

  
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  Throughout our field travels, Operation Blessing staff have had the opportunity to visit some of the most impoverished regions of the world. Yet hidden in those places of extreme poverty and disaster are also glimpses of God’s beauty and wonder. Take a look at some of these “heaven on earth” moments captured by ...
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• Authorities: At least 42 people killed in Islamic extremist attacks in northeast Nigeria

  
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  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities: At least 42 people killed in Islamic extremist attacks in northeast Nigeria. Continued here: Authorities: At least 42 people killed in Islamic extremist attacks in northeast Nigeria
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• 2015: We Will Match N’Delta Thugs Word For Word, Weapon For Weapon – North

  
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  A former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Adamu Aliyu has responded to threats of violence by repented Niger Delta militant warlord, Asari Dokubo, saying the Niger Delta “thugs” should be aware that they have no monopoly of violence. Dokubo, over the weekend, had threatened that if President Goodluck ...
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• AGENDA DE MONSIEUR LE PRÉSIDENT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE

  
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      AGENDA DE MONSIEUR LE PRÉSIDENT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE   PARIS, France, 6 mai 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – AGENDA DE MONSIEUR LE PRÉSIDENT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE   VENDREDI 10 MAI   11h00 Cérémonie à l’occasion de la Journée nationale des mémoires de la traite, ...
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• U.S. Prepares for Casualties in Africa

  
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  The extrication of U.S. Special Forces injured in African military ventures soon will provide contractors with an additional revenue stream, now that the Obama administration plans to keep such vendors on stand-by, 24/7, for cross-continent airborne mobilization.
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• Mali Conflict Map Update: May 2013 (#5)

  
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  This is an update within our Mali conflict map series - for the original story, see Mali Map: Islamist Control & French Intervention . To see previous maps and check for further updates,  view all Mali posts . Read on for a summary of the current situation. Updated map of territorial control and ...
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